[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday April the 2nd 1847. Beautiful clear warm day[.] S. wind[.] Moving houses commenced today to form the line of stockade.
I wrote the most part of my leasure time today and was around as usual[.] In the evening I went to Dr Richards office on business. Bishop Miller was there.
He had met the Twelve there to relate to them his plans in relation to going to the south. He wanted to go and settle between the Rio Grande and the Neuses river and make a treaty with Mexico & have them give us the land &c[.] But this was in dispute now between the United States & Mexico and was the great thoroughfare for both armies.
A very few words from different ones on the subject caused him to confess the impractibility of his plans(I thought it a pretty "dry job")
While I was there I recieved a letter from Jos Herring the indian[.] He was at Fort Leavenworth and manifested about the same spirit as when he left here. He said George was gone south[.] He wanted me to attend the great indian council this summer at the Salt Plains and still says I am the only one who can do any thing among the indians.
From the council I came home about Eleven oclock.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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